Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-19
COAST cuLLINes.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.


at Genoa, Nevada.
George OIL hanged himself at Car
son, Nevada, while insane.
There are sixty-iour convicts in the
Idaho territorial penitennary.
4 ferryboat upset near Ogden, Utah,
and Nels Johnson was drowned.
5. p. Palmer, sheepherder, was
found dead near San Diego, Cal.
A party of Nayajoes killed trader
named Barton near Bluff City, U. 1.
f. Chaumond, OF Virginia City,
Nevada, was killed by a runaway team.
Ahou, 100000 Young trout will be
turned loose in Lake Tahoe this sea
son.
Carson, Nevada, boasts OF Hol
stein COW which yields twenty-seven
quarts of milk per day.
James Shaw, while Mt work in field
near Walla Walla, became overheated
and was stricken with blindness.
Frank Ayres, a depraved wretch. has
been convicted of manslaughter at
Los Angeles, Cal. ios killing babe.
Wade Foster and Lee Turner, two
boys 10 years OF age, were horribly
mangled by Il team near Tehana, Cal.
San Francisco's suicide record for
one day: Jacob Kelting, revolver;
G. w Mayhugh, same; Nellie Arney,
laudanum.
Mrs. Langtry went before United
States commissioner at San Francisco,
and declared her intention of becon-
ing United States citizen.
Two boys, Fred Maltby and Thomas
Deacon, were drowned in Pike lake,
near Victoria. The bodies were found
locked in each other embrace.
The Mono county marble quarry,
near Carson, New, valued at FL ,000,-
600, was ruined by the recent earth
quake, the marble being broken into
cubes about foot square.
At Rocklin, Cal, an Italian named
Anselmo Pinaldo, who had charge Of a
coal bumper and donkey engine, tip
ped the whole over by bad manage
ment and was caught under it. He
died in II few hours.
As a train was leaving Cle-elum, w.
T., one OF the brakemen was missed.
but nothing particular was thought of
1t at the time. Afterwards he was
found dead under bridge above Gle
elum. The mans name was ]. s.
Horn and he carried card from Du-
buque, Iowa, engineers society.
Advices from Blackioot, Idaho, tell
OF daring Jail delivery. Mrs. Henry
Nickerson called upon her husband,
who was imprisoned for horse stealing
She brought revolvers, and together
they overpowered and locked the guard
in the cell, and then released Aleck
Woods and one Williams, both SEN
fenced to be hung July % for murder;
also another horse thief, and then made
their escape, horses having been pro-
vided. Woods refused horse, and
was caught. The Others are still at
large.
Information has been received that
the Sloop Sea Bird, which left Port
Townsend for Alaska May l9, 1886,
never reached port, but that the crew
were murdered by Indians at Knight
inlet. The crew consisted of Captain
Wells, Henry Moore (pilot), Henry
Bolt, and German, name unknown.
Moore mas family in Victoria, and
Bolt family in Seattle. Tom, an
Indian, whose brother was hanged at
Nanaimo, ". r., last year is supposed
to have committed the deed in re-
yenge.
The Inyo (Cal.) Independent says: A
number OF horses are kept together at
independence. A few days ago a lead
OF alfalfa hay was brought and put in
the yard near the stable; one horse
was loose i'll the yard. the other two
being tied np in the stable, the door
being left open. After eating few
bites OF the alfalfa, Of which he is very
fond, the loose horse appeared to re-
member that his companions were de.
barred from the feast. He took large
mouthfnls of the alfalfa, carried it into
the stable and placed it before the
other horses. II reason had any part
IN the action OF the good Samaritan.
who shall say that it had no part in
the action of this horse?
A very remarkable dam is about to
ne constructed by water company at
the San Mateo canyon, near San
Mateo, Cal, in order to form a reser.
volr The canyon is very narrow and
steep, and seventeen feet below the
bottom Is solid rock, on which the |
foundation OF the dam will rest The
structure will be 10 feet high. IT'S feet
wide at the base, 20 feet at the ton and |
'oo feet in length. 1t will be the largest
stone dam ever known to have been
built The dixie will have a curvature
OF ~ leet and the convex side will be
upstream. The material will be n
new sort of concrete composed Of
stone. The walls will be perfectly
smooth. The reservoir that will I've
formed by il and the adjacent hills will
be about eight miles in length and $50
leet deep IN the deepest places lis
capacity will be about $4,000, 900 900
gallons. The water will be conveyed
0y tunnels to the city of San Francisco
The eockroach is always wrong
neh IL attempts to argue with =
harttord Sun1ay Jom,ul
Many man who thinks he is goino
% set the world aiirr. finds, to his sor.